The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-06-11
sidered this matter 1 wish you would

mlnd's eye just such a man as you
need. His shoulders are we'll fitted
for a burden of this kind, and he
would pick it up cheerfully at any
timey you see fit to lay it down. 1 will
give you his address,"
"Thank you," said Mr.. Gould, as
the thermometer in the next room
suddenly froze up and burst with a
loud report. "And now, if you will
excuse me from offsetting my time,
which is worth $500 minute, against
yours, which L judge to be worth
about 81 per week. 1 will bid you
good morning."
He then held the the door open for
me and shortly after that I came
away. There were three reasons
why | did not remain, but the prin-
cipal reason was that did not think
he wanted me to do so.
And so came away and left him.
There was little else that could say
after that.
1t IS not the first time that West
ern man has been treated with con-
sideration. in his own section only to
be frowned upon and frozen when he
meets the same man in New York.
Mr., Gould is below the medium
height and is likely to remain so
through life. His countenance wears
crafty expression, and yet he allow
ed himself to be April-fooled by a
genial little party of gentlemen from
Boston, who sailed the Central
Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad
by holding back all the freight for
two weeks in order to have it on the
road while Jay was examining the
property.
Jay Gould would attract very little
attention here on the streets, but he
would certainly be looked upon with
suspicion in Paradise. A man who
would fail to remember that he had
$1,000, 900 that belonged to the Erie
road, but who does not forget to re-
member whenever he paid his own
hotel bills at Washington, is the kind
OF man who would pull up and
pawn the pavements of Paradise
within thirty days after he had got
there.
After looking over the above state
ment carefully, 1 feel called upon, in
justice to myself. to state that DR..
Burchard did not assist me in con-
structing the last sentence.
For those boys who wish to emu
late the example of Jay Gould the
example of Jay Gould is a good ex-
ample for them to emulate.
If any little boy in New York on
this beautiful Sabbath morning de-
sires to jeopardize his immortal soul
in order to be beyond the reach of
want, and ride gaiIy over the sunlit
pillows where the cruel fangs of the
Excise law cannot reach him, let
him cultivate lopsided memory,
swap friends for fun, and wise coun-
sci for crooked consols.
III had thought of these things as
came down the front steps at Irving
ton the other day l would have said
it to Mr.. Gould but did not think
of it until l got home. A mans best
thoughts frequently come to him too
late for publication.
But the name of Jay Gould will
not 60 down to future generations
linked with those of Howard and
Wilberforce. 1t will not 60 very far
any way. In this age of millionaires,
a millionaire more or less does not
count very much, and only the good
milliOnaires who baptize and beautify
their wealth in the eternal sunlight
of unselfshness will have any claim
on immortality.
In this period of progress and high
grade civilization, when Satan takes
humanity up to the top of high
mountain and shows his railroads
and his kerosene oil and his distil-
leries and his Golfers filled with pure
leaf lard, and says, call this will 1
give for seat in the Senate" COM
mon millionaire with no originality
of design does not excite any more
curiosity on Broadway than a young
man who is led about by little ecru
dog.
do not wish to crush capital with
labor, or to further intensity the feel
ing which already exists between the
two. for am land-holder and tax
payer myself; but say that the man
who never mixes up with the com.
mon people, unless he is summoned
to explain something and shake the
moths out of his memory, will some
day, when the grass grows green over
his own grave, find himself confront
ed by the same kind of memory
on the part of mankind.